The cultural treasure of the city
Municipal Library of Patra
Adress: 110 Maizonos Str., Patras
Tel. of Reading Room +30 2610 224813
mail: [email protected]
https://patraslibrary.weebly.com
Municipal Library of Patra
The origins of the Municipal Library of Patras lie in the donation of the library of the “Patra Craft Company” to the Municipality of Patras in 1903.
Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη Πατρών – Αναγνωστήριο / Municipal Library of Patras – Reading Room
In 1908, after petitions through the local Press, the Municipal Library of Patras was founded, and the first Supervisory Committee was elected. The Library was housed in the school on the corner of Gounari and Karaiskaki Streets. Two years later, in 1910, the official opening ceremony took place.
The Library closed in 1926, abandoned, and its contents were stored in the basement of the Municipality until 1944, when a group of book lovers transported them to the house of former mayor Ioannis Vlachos and subsequently to the Karamandani Mansion, on 42 Maizonos Street.
Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη Πατρών – Αρχιτεκτονικό σχέδιο / Municipal Library of Patra – Floorplan
In 1947 the postwar Municipal Library was inaugurated, with 18,200 books, mostly donated by the public. In 1948, by royal decree, the Library became a legal entity governed by public law. In 1955 the new building was inaugurated, and the books transported there.
Since 2011, the Library is part of a newly founded legal entity governed by public law, under the name “Municipal Library-Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Patras”. It comprises the Central Library (110 Maizonos Street) and the Annex (Eleftheria Square, 26 Fokaias Street). The ground floor houses the Children’s Department and the Municipal Gallery. Visitors can use the reading room, borrow books, access the Internet, use the computers for research purposes, and there are workstations for people with disabilities.
Head of the Library is the librarion Ms. Aikaterini Kourou
Future plans
The Municipal Library of Patras falls under the category of public libraries. Within this framework, its plans include the restoration of the buildings and the upgrading of services and functions, in order to develop into a large central public library that will support the right to self-education and public education, providing access to every resident of the city. Furthermore, it may also become the centre of a network of municipal/public libraries in the neighbouring municipalities and regions.
Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη Πατρών – Εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα / Municipal Library of Patra − Educational programme
For the moment, a study for the creation of a modern section for children/teenagers, a department for digital technologies and an exhibition of rare books and documents is underway.
Moreover, funding is being sought for the installation of digital services through the use of radio-frequency identification technology (RFID).
ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ
Artists’ Estates. The After-Life of artistic work. Workshop at EMST on January 21
As part of the public program of EMST, one of the axes of which is the issue of the management of artistic work and its legal and professional dimensions, the Museum organizes a workshop entitled Artists’ Estates, The After-Life of artistic work. The aspects of managing the tangible and intangible heritage that an artist leaves behind are museums, art history and the art market. In particular, with regard to the heritage of contemporary artists and artists, issues of central importance are the management, selection and integration of the work of art as well as the emergence ...More
A Midsummer Night’s dream. William Shakespeare’s play with Felix Mendelssohn’s stage music at the Athens Concert Hall
Mendelssohn's best-known melody, the wedding march, is written for Shakespeare's ode to Love, A Midsummer Night's dream. Fairies, elves, a forest full of surprises, two couples who hunt and are hunted, a wandering troupe, a royal wedding, and divine symphonic music that captures the sound of rustling leaves, fairy lullabies, donkey garrisons, metamorphosis, the movement of love, the truth of the moment and the other truth, of fantasy. In our performance, the ERT Symphony Orchestra stars, since the music itself narrates and offers us an open conversation with the Shakespearean discourse and the images that each ...More
Soloup, Ayvali. From KEDROS publications
Title: Ayvali Created By: Soloup Category: Comic Books Publisher: KEDROS Pages: 446 Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm Year of publication: 2014 Ayvali, the Greek Kydonies, was thanks to the privileges it enjoyed, a rich city with an almost purely Greek population. An excursion from Mytilene to Ayvali becomes the occasion of a narration of the history of the people who experienced the disaster 100 years ago. Even today, the city's buildings reflect the presence of the city's thriving Greek community. Soloup, with the eyes of a modern visitor but with guides Fotis Kontoglou, Elias Venezis, Agapi ...More
“Cardiac surgery-Past, Present and future” Lecture at the Free University of Polis Chrysochous by Dr. Ioannis Tzanavaros
Dr. Ioannis Tzanavaros, Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon, Adult Cardiac Surgeon, director of the Cardiac Innovation Center at Apollonion Hospital and clinical professor at the University of Nicosia, will present on Friday, January 13, 2023, at 6:00 m.m., at the cultural center of the municipality of Polis Chrysochous, a lecture entitled "Cardiac Surgery-past, present and future". Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death, especially in the elderly, in Cyprus and worldwide. Cardiac surgery, which until the end of the 19th century was considered impossible, managed within a hundred years to be the hope of life for millions ...More
Leave A Comment